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Mrs. Shelby, who, greatly to her amusement, had overheard this conversation from the verandah, now resolved to do her part. She came forward, and, courte- ously expressing her concern for Haley’s accident, pressed him to stay to dinner, saying that the cook should bring it on the table immediately. Thus, all things considered, Haley, with rather an equivocal grace, proceeded to the parlor, while Sam, rolling his eyes after him with unutterable meaning, pro- ceeded gravely with the horses to the stable-yard. “Did yer see him, Andy? did yer see him?” said Sam, when he had got fairly beyond the shelter of the barn, and fastened the horse to the post. “O Lor, if it warn’t as good as a meetin’, now, to see him a-dancin’ and kickin’ and swarin’ at us. Didn’t I hear him? Swar away, ole fellow (says I to myself); will yer have yer hoss now, or wait till you cotch him? (says I). Lor, Andy, I think I can see him now.” And Sam and Andy leaned up against the barn, and laughed to their hearts’ content. “Yer oughter seen how mad he looked when I brought the hoss up. Lord, he’d a-killed me if he durs’ to; and there I was a-standin’ as innercent and as humble.” “Lor, I seed you,” said Andy; “an’t you an old hoss, Sam?” “Rather specks I am,” said Sam; “did yer see Missis upstairs at the winder? I seed her laughin’.” “I’m sure, I was racin’ so, I didn’t see nothin’,” said Andy. |
